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Red Flag Gun Seizures Are on the Move in Washington D.C.!

If you listen hard enough, you can hear Michael Bloomberg laughing from his NYC war-room all the way out here in Iowa.

That’s because the US Senate Judiciary Committee just gave Bloomberg and Dianne Feinstein exactly what they wanted -– a public hearing on S.7, the ‘Red Flag Gun Seizure’ legislation that we have been warning you about!

The truth is, the fight over ‘Red Flag Gun Seizure’ legislation is more of a threat than ever before, now that Republican leaders have conceded and given this bill a hearing.

And based on the troubling statements that we’ve seen from both Senator Grassley and Senator Ernst about this bill, it’s clear that they need to hear from gun owners here in Iowa IMMEDIATELY!

That’s why I hope you’ll immediately sign the petition that we’ve prepared for you, telling both Senator Grassley and Ernst to fight for our gun rights.

No gun owner wants a criminally deranged person walking around carrying a gun. But there is already a process in place to deal with people like that.

Just consider the facts.

Under current law, those who tell others of their intent to kill can ALREADY be arrested for making threats if members of law enforcement are informed.

Those who are exhibiting “warning signs” that they may be planning violence can — at minimum — be interviewed by law enforcement who can move to arrest the person if needed.

As anyone in law enforcement will tell you, you can tell A LOT about a person’s intentions with the answers to just a couple questions.

But they’ll also tell you that no gun control law on the books will ever do a lick of good if law enforcement fails to do its job — like we saw at Parkland, Florida a year ago.

Gun-grabbers know all of this, but they don’t care.

They are hoping to use the support of Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham as their vehicle for moving this bill forward. It’s a smart move on their part.

Afterall, Senator Graham has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from Michael Bloomberg — something that he is quite proud of!

If enacted, ‘Red Flag Gun Seizure’ legislation would allow virtually anyone to make a claim that you are a danger to yourself or someone else and ask a judge to order you stripped of your firearms.

The amount of room for abuse in this process should have every gun owner in Iowa alarmed. Consider the following:

>>> These gun seizure orders will be issued before you havebeen charged, much less convicted, with anything!

A gun owner with absolutely no criminal background of any kind, can have his firearms seized before he ever sets foot in a courtroom. You would have more due process rights in traffic court than you would in defending your constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

>>>The hearings that determine whether or not to strip you ofyour firearms happen in secret!

Known as ex-parte proceedings, these hearings take place in your absence. You will have no ability to question your accuser, provide your own evidence, or testify in your own defense. In fact, the first time you will be made aware of this is when law enforcement officers come to your home to seize your firearms.

>>>The mere fact that you recently purchased a firearm or any

ammunition constitutes evidence that can be used against

you!

In most states, the list of ‘evidence’ that the court can consider in deciding to disarm you is the ‘recent acquisition of a firearm, ammunition, or other weapons.’

So just buying a firearm or a box of .22’s could be enough for a judge to order you stripped of your firearms.

Every gun owner in the state knows someone who has gone through a bad divorce; maybe you’ve gone through that misery yourself.

Can you imagine what an embittered ex-spouse could do to you if the country enacts this legislation? How about a neighbor who doesn’t like your pro-gun bumper sticker?

Ordinarily gun control bills like these are introduced by the hard-left Senators that you would expect: Dianne Feinstein, Charles Schumer, and Bernie Sanders.

And normally, in a Republican controlled US Senate, you and I could safely ignore these threats, as they are destined to go nowhere due to the partisan makeup of the Senate.

Sadly, that’s not the case this time.

You see, S. 7 was filed by Marco Rubio, a Republican Senator from Florida. More than that, the bill already has Republican cosponsors. And perhaps worst of all, the bill has the approval of the National Rifle Association itself!

In a recent video released by Chris Cox, the NRA said that they are in full support of ‘Red Flag Gun Seizure’ legislation provided that they do away with the ex-parte provision.

In other words, as long as you are able to stand in court and face your accusers, they are in agreement with this legislation!

And while that’s a small step in the right direction, the biggest threat facing gun owners through these ‘Red Flag Gun Seizures’ is the fact that you could lose your gun rights before you’ve been ARRESTED, CHARGED, OR CONVICTED OF A CRIME!

With the NRA backing it, I’m more concerned than ever that Senator Grassley and Senator Ernst may go along with it, which would explain the very disturbing statements that they have made about the bill.

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